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Oprah Winfrey. Bill Clinton. George Clooney. Each has reached a level of success that few will ever know.

Age wise, however, they are faces in a very large crowd—a crowd called the Baby Boom generation which grows larger with each passing year. Made up of around 75 million people born between 1946 and 1964, Baby Boomers in America are in nearly a dead heat with the Millennial generation (ages 18-34) to claim the title of largest living generation in the U.S., according to the Pew Research Center.

Education has come a long way in Kentucky over the past 30 years. Much of our progress began with the 1990 passage of KERA or the Kentucky Education Reform Act, which improved funding for K-12 education statewide from the mountains to the Mississippi. Today, that progress is seen in school facility improvements, better test scores, and a better educated Kentucky.

Typically the human body can break down the substances we put in it — legal or otherwise. When a person overdoses, however, the body can’t detoxify itself fast enough, and once a threshold is reached, it begins to shut down.

The goal with your training and diet is to always get the most anabolic response possible.

In order to do this you must tick specific boxes throughout the day. When we say “anabolic response,” we are actually referring to everything in regard to diet, training and everything in between. During your workout you will momentarily become catabolic, however overall your training is going to give you an anabolic response if you do the right things, which we will discuss in this month’s article.

We’ve all been there. Someone has swerved into your lane, slammed on his or her brakes in front of you, sped up behind you, slowed to a crawl in front of you. And we all complain about how dangerous other drivers are.

But we’ve also all been on the other side of the equation.

Sometimes you have to rush to drop the kids off or get to a meeting and you don’t eat breakfast or your lunch break is cut short, so you finish a meal as you drive.

On Thursday, May 11 Champions for a Drug Free Carroll County will be hosting our annual Carroll County Town Forum Meeting at The Butler Park Convention Center starting at 6 p.m. Each year Champions holds an event in this manner to bring awareness to one specific drug or issue that Carroll County may be facing. This year we have decided to partner up with Three Rivers District Health Department to join forces and make this the most attended yet!

The landmark 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement has brought hundreds of millions of dollars to the Commonwealth over the past two decades. I keep up with how that money is spent—in agriculture, health care and early childhood education, as appropriated—and thought you’d enjoy an update, too.

I was particularly interested to learn that a Kentucky-based company looking to process the fiber of around 750 acres of hemp and the jute-like plant kenaf has been approved for $381,500 in state tobacco funds to expand its processing facility.

As a Senator, my job requires that I spend many hours in Washington, but Kentucky is my home and I make it a priority to be in the state when the Senate is not in session. Over the last two weeks, the Senate was not in session so I decided to again travel throughout the Commonwealth as I often do. Not only is this a great way to engage with Kentuckians from every corner of the state, but it’s also a great way to ensure I can continue my work most effectively as Kentucky’s voice in the Senate.

U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, after doing what he called “the single most consequential thing” in his 46 years in politics – securing a Supreme Court seat for conservatives by keeping a liberal president from filling it – drew lots of harsh criticism.